So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

I make the kind of music I like

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit